Thousands of Israelis were evacuated from more than a dozen towns near Gaza, and the military summoned 300,000 reservists — a massive mobilization in a short time.
Nine-eleven. Eleven-thirteen. These are days we’ll remember. Friday’s psychotic mass killings in Paris shook the Western world. The president of the United States has spoken. Where we might have been interested before, where we might have been engaged, we are now invested. My young friends tell me that we’re less outraged by the murders of […]
Nine-eleven. Eleven-thirteen. These are days we’ll remember. Friday’s psychotic mass killings in Paris shook the Western world. The president of the United States has spoken. Where we might have been interested before, where we might have been engaged, we are now invested. My young friends tell me that we’re less outraged by the murders of […]
For the moment, the prolific images on CNN of bleeding and maimed Gazan children being used as human shields by Hamas in hospitals have ceased. So has the castigation by the White House of Israel’s use of harsh military force to stop the rockets from being shot from these humanitarian facilities. While the on-again, off-again […]
This week marks two rather grim anniversaries that few in this country will mark. They are significant events in U.S. and world history, but they have either faded over time or were events many wished to forget. On Aug. 6, 1945 the city of Hiroshima, Japan nearly ceased to exist after the first atomic bomb […]
It would be awkward to talk about a moral high ground in a context such as the conflict in Israel and Gaza, where so many innocents are dying and so many more — on both sides — are in peril. The current clash, however, should be an eye-opener for those harrumphing outsiders who would hold […]
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